Hieroglyphic name:
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Hieroglyphic name of Cleopatra IV |
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Cleopatra IV |
Cleopatra IV (d. 113 BC) was the daughter of King
Ptolemy VIII and Queen
Cleopatra III. Associate of her brother,
Ptolemy IX, who was forced to divorce her by their mother some 116 BC. Cleopatra IV fled to Cyprus and then Syria, where she united the Seleucid king Antiochus IX Cyzicenus. She was in Antioch in 113 BC when it came to his touch, Antiochus VIII Grypus, whose married woman, her sister Cleopatra VI Tryphaena, set her execution.
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